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oh yes I'm still 'at it', like a youthful John Shuttleworth or a brave clown on a tight-rope blithely ignoring the concerns of an ENTIRE nation of people, as my valedictory gesture and contribution to the 'world' gets accidentally deleted by me sitting on the mixing desk. Oh well.

Of course I'm on about 'making music' - I know its vulgar, like seeing an over excited male dog, but there you go. As long as there's breath in my body etc blah - sorry, I'm referring to the fac t that I'm 'still' 'making' music, and I have a problem with Ableton LIVE. - HELP!

I want a really nice Grand piano sound - where do I get it from - Nerds, help me!

I hated that gig. I thought HOT CHIP had a better command of the room than she did that night. All of Brixton spoke over her while she was singing... but silly idea performing 6 ballads in a row, from start to finish.

I was very disappointed with that gig. I ceased to be a fan after that.

Harsh, aren't I? Yes. I know people have bad gigs but I just failed to be impressed with the whole concept of putting up 40 industrial strength fans and hearing her 'LA LA LAAAAAAAAAA' a gazillion times.

If you go to Control Panel and open Sound and Audio Devices you'll seen an Audio tab.

At the bottom is the MIDI bit. See what different devices you can select because I have some kind of Roland wavetable synthesizer.

Anyway, once you've got that you could look in Ableton for the MIDI track and see what instruments you can assign it. I think track 10 is always drums but they normally have them blocked into different types, e.g. Pianos. Select one and play some notes that you've recorded on the MIDI with it. Maybe.